Your only wheelset: rad wide carbon for optimal tyre patch, and feather weight for the rigours of racing and KOM chasing.

Race-only wheels is something we don’t understand at Wheelworks, all our wheels can handle the rigours of racing, training, mud, rock gardens and the whole mountain bike experience.

Designed with 30mm external width (24mm), the wide carbon rim provides optimal tyre shape, allowing use of a narrower, lighter tyres, whilst keeping the same contact patch with the ground as a wider tyre would on a narrow rim. Prefer big tyres? No problems here, a 2.4 or 2.5 tyre will happily seat to these rims, and bring the wheels to a whole new level of trail-worthiness.

Tubeless specific, life time warranty including impact damage, and at a super sharp price; all hand built in our Lyall Bay workshop.

Intended Use

This wheelset is designed to partner with a light weight, short travel XC race bike for XC-oriented use, and includes a comprehensive lifetime warranty for this type of use which includes impact damage.

If your XC bike will be used as an all-around bike then the Carbon Trail wheelset with it’s extra rim width is worth considering.

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Lifetime Warranty

Carbon Rims – Lifetime warranty including impact damage:

We design and build our Flite carbon rims to last a very long time. Where is the fineprint? There isn’t any. As long as you’re using the wheelset for it’s intended use (no you can’t buy XC wheels and then race the National Downhill series on them like one customer did) we’re proud to offer a lifetime guarantee including impact damage.

We know from building hundreds of these wheelsets that the chance of something going wrong is extremely low but if it does we’re only a phonecall away.

Spokes – Lifetime warranty

The most common cause of broken spokes is poor wheelbuild quality. We go to painstaking lengths to accurately measure each and every rim and hub we build before calculating spoke lengths and cutting and rolling spokes to 0.1mm accuracy.

We use the top of the line DT Swiss Aerolite bladed spoke on all our Flite Wide Carbon wheels because it’s the best spoke for the job and to save weight we use premium aluminium nipples. These spokes and nipples are mega-bucks compared to the round-section spokes and brass nipples used on competing wheelsets but we use them because your wheels deserve the best.

Spokes Nipples – Lifetime warranty

We have a lifetime guarantee against broken spokes and spoke nipples and we wouldn’t offer this we weren’t 100% confident in aluminium nipples and our ability to build a wheel using them.

Aluminium nipples save weight (just under a gram each) but get a bad reputation for three reasons – they seize to the spoke, they break, and they round-out where the spoke key turns them (generally because of reason #1)

We mitigate the risks of using aluminium and we don’t see problems with them. First we de-burr the inside of the spoke holes of aluminium rims: This means there are no burrs from drilling and it also helps to countersink the rim slightly to match the profile of the nipple. We then use a special grease on the spoke thread and the contact between the nipple and rim. This grease lasts a very long time and means the nipples won’t corrode to the stainless steel spoke.

Generally aluminium nipples break because of two reasons: the wheel wasn’t well-built, or the spoke was too short. Again, to mitigate these problems we measure the ERD (effective rim diameter) and flange geometry of every wheel I build, including combinations we’ve done previously as the ERD will vary by 1mm or so. We have custom software which calculates the spoke length very accurately, even going so far as to take into account how much the spokes will stretch due to their tension which is different on either side of the wheel because of the offset flanges. We then cut each spoke and roll it’s threads on a Japanese made machine. Our spoke lengths are accurate to around 0.1mm meaning the spoke sits flush with the top of the nipple ensuring all threads are engaged on the nipple and not placing the nipple under tensile loading.

Rim Specs

27.5”

29”

Rim width:

24mm internal

24mm internal

Rim width:

30mm external

30mm external

Rim depth:

31mm

Optimized tyre size:

2″ XC tyres all the way up to 2.4″ trail tyres

Hub Choices

Our Dial 36 hub utilises the same design features as the incredible Dial Pro 72 so durable, but with fewer points of engagement. No special tools are required to service the freehub body or swap between axle standards and hub bearings are normal sizes and easy to find. If you have any questions about servicing or maintaining the Dial hub our trained and experienced staff are available to help.

We didn’t simply buy a hub and put our stickers on it, we work with the manufacturer to incorporate our design goals to accomplish the Dial 36 and Dial Pro 72. For example the Dial hubs are made for us by a Taiwanese company who engineer hubs for large companies that every rider would be able to name. This company has the engineering skill and testing facilities to develop a freehub body system which is durable, creak-free, and have very fast engagement….something very difficult to do. We then license this freehub body system and design the other features of the hub around it: Where the flanges are placed, the angle these flanges have, the spoke hole diameter, and the spoke hole chamfers. Our needs are often opposite to what the industry wants: for example we want a very small spoke hole diameter to support the spoke whereas the industry wants a very large hole to make lacing the spokes faster in a production environment (the reason why spokes break at the hub).

Weights

(coming shortly – give us a call on 04 387 3592 with any questions)

Tubeless

Tubeless allows lower tyre pressure, more grip, and less punctures. It’s a no-brainer.

Tubeless rimtape is fitted and a pair of light weight CNC aluminium tubeless valves is supplied. Our attention to detail extends to the tubeless valves: serrated lockrings makes them easy to fit or remove and integrated wrench-flats are provided for super-tight valves. The valve cores are removable for easy cleaning or for assistance while installing difficult tubeless tyres. The inner section of the valve is optimised for our rims ensuring an easy air-tight fit.

After Sale Support

Our commitment to you doesn’t end once we’ve got your money: If you have any questions maintaining or servicing your wheelset we’re here to help. Just get in touch.

Each wheel we build is engraved with a unique number and we keep detailed records dating back over 10 years tracking not just who built your wheels but minute details like spoke length, pre-stress procedure, and even what type of grease was used between the spoke and nipple.